Widespread Growth Across Industries in 2012

Professional and business services; finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing; mining; and manufacturing were the leading contributors to U.S. economic growth in 2012, according to revised statistics on the breakout of real gross domestic product (GDP) by industry from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

• Value-added prices for the private goods-producing sector decelerated in 2012, increasing 1.8 percent after increasing 6.0 percent in 2011. Mining was the leading contributor to the deceleration in the GDP price index for 2012.